BP Professor of Organic Chemistry
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The BP Professorship of Organic Chemistry is one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge, based in the Department of Chemistry. [1]
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BP Professors of Organic Chemistry
- Steven V. Ley (1992 to date)[2]
History
Founded in 1702 by the university as simply 'Professor of Chemistry', it was retitled as the Professorship of Organic Chemistry in 1943, and in 1991 was renamed after a benefaction from the oil company British Petroleum.
Professors of Organic Chemistry
- Alexander Robertus Todd (1944-1971)[3]
- Ralph Alexander Raphael (1972-1988)[4]
- Alan Rushton Battersby (1988-1992)[5]
Professors of Chemistry
- Giovanni Francisco Vigani (1703-1713)
- John Waller (1713-1718)
- John Mickleburgh (1718-1756)
- John Hadley (1756-1764)
- Richard Watson (1764-1771)
- Isaac Pennington (1773-1793)
- William Farish (1794-1813)
- Smithson Tennant (1813-1815)
- James Cumming (1815-1861)
- George Downing Liveing (1861-1908)[6]
- William Jackson Pope (1908-1939)[7]
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